Sale 488: Rare Books & Manuscripts: The Property of Jane Hohfeld Galante & Other Owners (#488) 09/13/2012 11:00 AM PDT Closed Starts Ending 09/13/2012 11:00 AM PDT Auction Info 488 46 PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#TitleNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)RelevanceAuthorProvenancePublisherDate PublishedConditionCode Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above ConditionCodeConditionCode-Select-finenear finevery goodgoodfairpoor sold as is Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-36 of 36. Previous|1|Next Lot #2 The History of the Abbey Church of St Peter's Westminster, Its Antiquities and Monuments Heading(Ackermann)Author**HeadlineHistory of Westminster Abbey 1812 AckermannPublisherR. AckermannDate Published1812 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold Lot #4 Thirty volumes from the Aldine British Poets series - Finely Bound Heading(Aldine British Poets)Author**HeadlineThirty volumes from the Aldine British Poets seriPublisherPickeringDate Published1830-39 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #16 The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce AuthorBierce, AmbroseHeadlineCollected Works of Ambrose Bierce Finely BoundPublisherThe Neale Publishing CompanyDate Published1909-11 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #17 WITHDRAWN Series Chronologica et Imagines Regum Hispaniae ab Ataulpho ad Carolum II AuthorBlondeau, Jacobus, engraverHeadlineSpanish Monarchs from Ataulphus to Charles IIPublisherPetrus de la TourDate Published1698 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #24 A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, now entituled: The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night [and] Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night AuthorBurton, Richard F., translatorHeadlineBurton's translation of the Arabian Nights Ltd EdPublisherPrinted by the Burton Club for Private Subscribers OnlyDate PublishedNo date [c.1900] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #25 Philobiblon, a Treatise on the Love of Books: Written in MCCCXLIV, and translated from the first edition, MCCCCLXXIII. With some collations AuthorBury, Richard deHeadline1st Ed. in English of De Bury's Philobiblon 1832PublisherPrinted for Thomas RoddDate Published1832 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #29 [Don Quixote in English, Parts I & II bound together in period calf] AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineDon Quixote in English, Parts I & II, 1620PublisherEdward BlountDate Published1620 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #30 [Don Quixote in English, i.e.] The history of the valorous and vvitty-knight-errant, Don-Quixote, of the Mancha. Translated out of the Spanish; now newly corrected and amended AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadline1652 English edition of Don QuixotePublisherPrinted by Richard Hodgkinsonne, for Andrew CrookeDate Published1652 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #31 [Don Quixote in Spanish, facsimile of first edition, i.e:], El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineDon Quixote in Spanish, facsimile first editionPublisherDon Francisco Lopez FabraDate Published1871-1873 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #32 The Jerusalem Windows AuthorChagall, MarcHeadlineMarc Chagall Jerusalem Windows 2 Original LithosPublisherGeorge BrazillerDate Published[1962] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #34 The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, Together with a Version in Modern English Verse AuthorChaucer, GeoffreyHeadlineCanterbury Tales Illustrations by Rockwell KentPublisherCovici FriedeDate Published1930 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #43 A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and England AuthorDibdin, Thomas FrognallHeadlineDibdin Tour France & England extra-illustratedPublisherPrinted for the Author, by W. Bulmer and W. NicolDate Published1821 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold Lot #47 L'art, la Décoration et l'Ornement des Étoffes et des Tissus: Chez les Anciens et Chez les Modernes...Recueil Historique, Pratique et Technique de Décorations Polychromes AuthorDupont-Auberville, [Auguste]HeadlineRare work on decorated fabrics -ChromolithographsPublisherLibrairie Ancienne et Moderne de la Noblesse et des Beaux-ArtsDate Published[c.1877] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #48 Macao et Cosmage ou L'Experience de Bonheur AuthorEdy-Legrand, [Edouard Leon Louis]HeadlineEdy-Legrand Macao et Cosmage 1919 1st EditionPublisherAux Editions de la Nouvelle Revue FrancaiseDate Published[1919] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #53 The Variorum and Definitive Edition of the Poetical and Prose Writings of Edward Fitzgerald AuthorFitzgerald, EdwardHeadlineWorks of Edward FitzgeraldPublisherDoubleday, Page and CompanyDate Published1902 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #54 The Poetical Works of Robert Burns - With a fore edge portrait of the author Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorBurns, RobertHeadlineWorks of Robert Burns with a fore edge paintingPublisherDavid BryceDate Published[c.1890] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #56 The Works of Anatole France - Autograph Edition AuthorFrance, AnatoleHeadlineThe Works of Anatole France - Autograph EditionPublisherGabriel WellsDate Published1924 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #58 North of Boston AuthorFrost, RobertHeadlineNorth of Boston 1st edition London 1914 by FrostPublisherDavid NuttDate Published[1914] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #63 The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ - In a beautiful hand-painted full vellum binding Heading(Hand-Painted Binding)Author**HeadlineNew testament in a painted vellum bindingPublisherUniversity PressDate Published1881 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #68 The Odyssey - With Illustrations by N.C. Wyeth AuthorHomerHeadlineThe Odyssey - With Illustrations by N.C. WyethPublisherHoughton Mifflin CompanyDate Published1929 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #71 Sixteenth century illuminated manuscript of Persian poetry, probably produced in Samarkand Heading(Illuminated Manuscript)Author**Headline16th Century Persian Illuminated ManuscriptDate Published[c. 1576] View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #74 The Grammar of Ornament AuthorJones, OwenHeadlineOwen Jones The Grammar of OrnamentPublisherBernard QuaritchDate Published1910 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #80 Etching. An Outline of Its Technical Processes and Its History, With Some Remarks on Collections and Collecting AuthorKoehler, S.R.HeadlineS.R. Koehler on Etching 30 etched platesPublisherCassell & Company, LimitedDate Published[1885] View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$593.75StatusSold Lot #88 Der Tod in Venedig AuthorMann, ThomasHeadlineDeath in Venice, 1912, 1/100 publisher's copyPublisherHyperionverlag Hans von WeberDate Published1912 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold Lot #98 East of the Sun and West of the Moon Heading(Nielsen, Kay)Author[Asbjornsen, P.C. and J.I. Moe]HeadlineKay Nielsen's East of the Sun & West of the MoonPublisherHodder & StoughtonDate Published[1914] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #104 Recueil de Poesies Fugitves et Contes Nouveaux AuthorPiis, Pierre-Antoine-Augustin (17 September 1755, Paris – 22 May 1832, Paris), chevalier de Piis wasHeadlineRecueil de Poesies Fugitves et Contes NouveauxDate Published1781 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #110 The Tale of Benjamin Bunny - In rare glassine dust jacket AuthorPotter, BeatrixHeadlineTale of Benjamin Bunny in Glassine DJ 1907PublisherFrederick WarneDate Published[1904, but c.1907] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #114 The Compleat Angler Heading(Rackham, Arthur)AuthorWalton, IzaakHeadlineIzaak Walton's Complete Angler Rackham IllusPublisherGeorge C. HarrapDate Published[1931] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #120 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Copies AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineSecond Folio edition of Shakespeare’s Works 1632PublisherPrinted by Tho. Cotes, for William Aspley... at the signe of the Parrat in Pauls Church-yardDate Published1632 View details Estimate$200,000 - $300,000StatusUnsold Lot #121 The Works of William Shakespeare - Cambridge Edition AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineWorks of William Shakespeare - Cambridge EditionPublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1891 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #123 The Novels, Stories, and Sketches of F. Hopkinson Smith AuthorSmith, F. HopkinsonHeadlineThe Novels of F. Hopkinson Smith Finely BoundPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1904-1915 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #126 The Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne - Bonchurch Edition AuthorSwinburne, Algernon CharlesHeadlineComplete Works of Algernon Charles SwinburnePublisherWilliam Heinemann and Gabriel WellsDate Published1925-27 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #127 The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate - Edition De Luxe AuthorTennyson, Alfred, LordHeadlineThe Works of Alfred, Lord TennysonPublisherDana Estes & CompanyDate Published[1895] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #128 Autograph manuscript leaf, in ink with pencil corrections, discussing Transcendentalist philosophy AuthorThoreau, Henry DavidHeadlineThoreau manuscript leaf c.1840Date Publishedc.1840 View details Estimate$25,000 - $35,000StatusUnsold Lot #130 Autograph Letter Signed as Samuel L. Clemens, to Andrew Chatto, requesting some of his printed works be sent to him AuthorTwain, MarkHeadlineLetter from Mark Twain to his English publisherDate PublishedJune 3, [1878] View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #131 Roughing It AuthorTwain, MarkHeadlineMark Twain Roughing It First Edition, First IssuePublisherAmerican Publishing Co.Date Published1872 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next